The Anglican Diocese of Harare is a diocese of the

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. The Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland was formed in 1891 and its first

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was George Knight-Bruce. He was succeeded by William Gaul (1895–1907), formerly Rector of St Cyprian's Church in

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. Small in stature, Gaul styled himself “the smallest bishop with the largest Diocese in

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.” In 1915 the diocese became the Diocese of Southern Rhodesia until 1952 when it reverted to the Diocese of Mashonaland. The diocese was known as the Diocese of Harare and Mashonaland, until changing his name to Diocese of Harare. It has experienced great turbulence in recent times. The bishop's seat is at the

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List of bishops

* George Knight-Bruce 1891–1895 * William Gaul 1895–1907 * Edmund Powell 1908–1910 * Frederic Beaven 1911–1925 *

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1925–1957 * Cecil Alderson 1957–1968 *

Paul Burrough John Paul Burrough MBE (5 May 1916 – 27 January 2003) was Bishop of Mashonaland from 1968 to 1981. Background He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 May 1916 and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. ...

1968–c.1980 ** Patrick Murindagomo was suffragan bishop in 1974 *

Peter Hatendi Ralph Peter Hatendi DD AKC (9 April 192731 August 2018) was a Zimbabwean Church of England priest who served as bishop of Harare and Mashonaland from 1979 until his retirement in 1995. He was the first indigenous Black Zimbabwean to hold this p ...

c.1980–c.1995 *

Jonathan Siyachitema Jonathan Siyachitema was an Anglican bishop in Zimbabwe. Siyachitema was born in 1932 and educated at Sarum College. He was ordained in 1971 and began his career in Bulawayo. Later he was the Archdeacon of Matabeleland from 1974 to 1978; Dean of ...

c.1995–c.2001 *

Nolbert Kunonga Nolbert Kunonga (born 31 December 1950 in Wedza District, Southern Rhodesia) is the former Zimbabwean Anglican Bishop of Harare and Mashonaland. Controversy Kunonga was criticised within and outside the Anglican Communion for his ardent suppor ...

c.2001–2008 *

Sebastian Bakare Sebastian Bakare (born 1940) is a Zimbabwean retired Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Harare and former Bishop of Manicaland. He was once engaged in a controversial, drawn-out, and divisive power struggle over the leadership of the Diocese of ...

2008–2009 *

Chad Gandiya Chad Gandiya was an Anglican bishop in Zimbabwe. Gandiya was educated at St John's College, Nottingham and the University of Zimbabwe. He undertook further post-graduate training in medical ethics in the US and in Zimbabwe. He served as a parish ...

2009–2018 * Farai Mutamiri 2019–

References

External links

Official website
Anglicanism in Zimbabwe Christian organizations established in 1891 1891 establishments in the British Empire

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